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Jazz Piano School

Brenden Lowe : Professional Jazz Pianist and Jazz Piano Educator

Learn jazz piano without the guesswork. The ultimate hub for online jazz piano education.

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Jazz Piano School Ep 47: Everything Comping Part 2

Jazz Piano School ·

2016/08/05

Here is the part 2 of the comping series. This one is a doozy! Trust me. There is a lot of great information stacked in here. Take your time and split it up if you need to into different watching or listening sessions. You'll love it!

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00:44:35

Jazz Piano School Ep 46: Everything Comping Part 1

Jazz Piano School ·

2016/07/29

As I was reviewing through all the JPS podcasts I realized there were none on comping! Wow! Well we're about to change that. In this two part series I'm going to go over everything comping ranging from beginner to advanced techniques, where to place your hands and what voicings to use. Enjoy!

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00:33:33

Jazz Piano School Ep 45: How To Practice LH Comping,...

Jazz Piano School ·

2016/07/22

This is a great topic that someone requested on the podcast page the other day. Learning to improvise is one thing. Learning to comp with your LH while your RH improvises is a completely different story. So in this podcast I go over 5 key points that will help you practice your LH comping with your RH improvisation. I know you'll love it! Enjoy!

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00:38:29

Jazz Piano School Ep 44: How To Accompany A Singer

Jazz Piano School ·

2015/07/13

This is a topic within jazz piano education that I get asked about A LOT! For good reason too. Fortunately, most of the work I get actually come with playing with singers. I've excelled at this through out my career from playing in a church for a long time. In church, I've had to accompany singers in all sorts of styles, genres and situations. Let me tell you, the path is not easy. I'm confident these basics will get you started on the right path. Enjoy!

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00:26:56

Jazz Piano School Ep 43: Getting Back At It!

Jazz Piano School ·

2015/07/07

Well guess what? I fell off again! But who doesn't right? The good thing is you simply pick yourself back up and keep going at it from where ever you last left off. This goes for anything in life. Never give up! Especially jazz piano. If you stop practicing for 1 week, 2 months or even a year, just accept it and start again from where you left off. The hardest part is to start up again, take it from me! Haha In this episode I share some random thoughts that have been on my mind and share a teaser

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00:32:09

Jazz Piano School Ep 42: Beginner Course & 2015 Thoughts

Jazz Piano School ·

2015/01/26

So excited to be back podcasting! I had so many problems with the podcast on iTunes. A couple episodes were not showing up. Then I had to take the podcast off and it was a mess! Anyway I'm back. I've launched the Jazz Piano School Beginner Course! So excited for this. Already have a lot of signups. In this podcast I go over my thoughts on the new Jazz Piano School Beginner Course. Why it's different than other online jazz piano courses. I also talk about my thoughts for JPS in 2015 and how it can

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00:36:45

Jazz Piano School Ep 41 : Improvising Rhythmic Motifs

Jazz Piano School ·

2014/10/14

By do some solo's sound boring and some sound awesome? Rhythms. Rhythms in jazz are the feel good mojo that spices up your solo. They are at the heart of our soul. In order to make our solos pop and have the feel good feeling to them we need to add rhythms to our solo that have contrast. If we are playing all eighth notes and quarter notes on downbeats, our solo's will sound bland and dry. In this episode I give you many different ways to practice your rhythms in order to spice up your solo.

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00:00:00

Jazz Piano School Ep 40 : The Altered Scale

Jazz Piano School ·

2014/10/14

When you're first learning jazz it's hard to get that jazz sound that gives tensions and sounds like we're not playing like a baby. It might sound to you like you're playing is sooo beginnerish still. Well here's how to change it. By learning the altered scale we will immediately give our playing lots of tension and color by using the extensions in this scale. Enjoy!

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00:15:03

Jazz Piano School Ep 39 : The Tritone Substitution

Jazz Piano School ·

2014/10/14

We as jazz musicians have a lot of freedom to change progressions and harmonies in a tune. How exactly do we do it though? In this podcast I'll teach you a foundational concept that will lead to many more reharm opportunities while soloing, comping, and playing solo piano. Enjoy!

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00:21:09

Jazz Piano School Ep 38 : How To Develop Your Solos

Jazz Piano School ·

2014/10/14

As I've said before jazz is like speaking a language. We know that person in our life that won't stop talking. They just talk and talk and talk. It's never fun to listen to them. The people who take their time and say something meaningful are the ones to listen to. We want to be those people on the piano. It's extremely easy for us as pianists to play and play and play because we have a percussive instrument. We can just bang away on the piano and not reazlie we're not leaving space. In this podcast

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00:17:00

Jazz Piano School Ep 37 : LH Solo Piano Components

Jazz Piano School ·

2014/09/09

Solo piano can be very frustrating. You have 88 keys and ten fingers. What the heck do you play? It's easier than you might think. Your LH and RH have different roles that should work together to produce a great sounding tune. When you understand the roles each hand plays you'll be better equipped to play solo piano and make progress. I will dissect the specific LH components in this episode. Enjoy!

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00:20:40

Jazz Piano School Ep 36 : What Are Extensions?

Jazz Piano School ·

2014/09/09

Most people gravitate towards jazz because of the rich colors and sounds that come from the music. We all want to be able to play those amazing sounding chords on the piano. How do we do it though? I'll tell you right now. Extensions. Extensions are the colors that allow you to spice up your playing and start to paint the music however you'd like. Extensions are the beginning of the road to freedom in music. Just as a painter paints with his colors, a jazz musician paints with extensions. Let's get

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00:12:09

Jazz Piano School Ep 35: Walk Bass Lines Part 1

Jazz Piano School ·

2014/09/07

Learning how to walk bass lines is a skill all jazz pianists want to accomplish. And who wouldn't? We have a nice bass register on the piano but we never learn how to do anything with it. Anytime we see an bass player walking all over a tune like he owns we just stare in awe. In this episode I'm going to get you started on the right path to walking bass lines that will impress a bass player! Let's do it!

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00:00:00

Jazz Piano School Ep 34 : Rootless Voicing Textures

Jazz Piano School ·

2014/09/06

We recently learned our rootless voicings. In this episode I'm going to show you how to turn these rootless voicings into two hand comping textures to use with groups or while playing solo piano. These sounds are the heart of jazz comping. Anyone who uses these will be creating jazz sounds used through out the years. We're finally getting to the good stuff of jazz piano voicings and comping.

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00:00:00

Jazz Piano School Ep 33 : Beginning Ear Training

Jazz Piano School ·

2014/09/05

Ear training is highly sought after in jazz because much of the music involves using our ear to hear progressions, licks, movements and much more. The better ear you have, the better player you will be. So how exactly do we go about improving our ear and helping it to hear movements and notes better. In this podcast that's exactly what I will tell you.

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00:09:17

Jazz Piano School Ep 32 : Rootless Voicings Part 2

Jazz Piano School ·

2014/09/02

So structure 2 is simply an inversion of rootless voicings structure 1. We now start on the 7th degree of our minor chord instead of the 3rd. Once you studied structure 1, structure #2 should come just as easily.

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00:24:05

Jazz Piano School Ep 31 : Rootless Voicings Part 1

Jazz Piano School ·

2014/08/27

Alright, you've waited long enough for some pro jazz voicings! Well here they are. Rootless voicings will be your key to advanced jazz voicings with both one and two hands in the future. These are your transport system to playing amazing sounding jazz chords. Study these hards because they will only help open more doors to come. There are two different structure and in this episode I will be going over structure 1.

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00:27:00

Jazz Piano School Ep 30 : How To Use Diatonic Harmony

Jazz Piano School ·

2014/08/19

So you may be wondering how can you start putting these diatonic chords to use now. Well there are a number of different ways you can do it. The first benefit we now have is we can transpose music easily, and effectively. When I analyze a tune and understand what the progression is, meaning I know if the chords are serving as a II-7 chord of a V7 chord, I can now take that progression and easily move it into another key using those same roman numerals. Learning progressions is the other big benefit

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00:17:36

Jazz Piano School Ep 29 : How To Use Modes

Jazz Piano School ·

2014/08/15

I don't use modes. Who needs modes? What good are modes anyway? Modes are the building blocks of improv. Modes are the notes that correspond with a chord. Not using modes is like misspelling words.

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00:18:23

Jazz Piano School Ep 28 : Why You Need Diatonic Harmony

Jazz Piano School ·

2014/08/11

We have to be able to understand how to put the puzzle pieces together in jazz. How can you expect to do this without understanding where they go? Well, you can't! This is why Diatonic Harmony is so important. Diatonic Harmony is the road map to explain how chords and progressions fit together. Without learning this you will be completely lost as we continue to progress. Diatonic Harmony is the relationship of chords to a scale and certain key. Pretty easy once you get into it! Leave your questions

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